Smiter of Typeaux
This is not 'kiting', this is 'pulling'. Kiting is when you run the mobs around for one reason or another (one needs to be kept busy to prevent it healing another, or for trolling purposes. It used to be fun to drag a World Of Warcraft world boss that would become immune to damage after three minutes halfway across a continent to a major city, where he would rampage and destroy everything until stopped by a GM; the most famous example was Lord Kazzak being kited to Stormwind. For 90 minutes, his AOE shadowbolts would kill NP Cs and players, until finally they had to roll back the server to fix it.)
'Pulling' is when you aggro one or more mobs and draw them to a more advantageous position to kill them. The difference is intention rather than action. You pull a mob, then run, making sure to keep it angry by shooting or stabbing it occasionally, to take something angry to someplace squishy, that's kiting. Pulling a mob to get it away from the patrolling groups that could walk into a fight and add to it, that's pulling.
That Guy
Is there any chance that we could add "aggroing" or "Aggro Monster" as a redirect?
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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: We Already Have
, started by dotchan on Oct 22nd 2010 at 6:11:22 PM
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